Best way to "smarten" odd ellipsis pattern to U+2026?

Macthelist · 01-12-2023, 12:05 PM

I have a book that has ellipses in pattern of repeating no-break space (U+00a0) and a regular period:

i.e., as " . . . "

Smarten Punctuation in Calibre doesn't catch it -- what's the best way to turn it into a U+2026 (horizontal ellipsis) using Calibre?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Quoth · 01-12-2023, 12:23 PM

Some people argue that periods and partial size no-break spaces are superior.
But a global search for . . . replace with … in an ebook will work.
You might also want to replace ... (or more .) and regular spaced version also partial sized spaces as well as the no-break space.
I just type in “ ” ‘ ’ … — – ′ and ″ as only < and > need to be HTML entities in UTF8 ebooks. Similarly è é etc sometimes have HTML entities, but the direct characters work.

Macthelist · 01-12-2023, 03:27 PM

I found something that works for me. I was able to Regex search in the Calibre for:

\u00A0[.]

01-12-2023, 12:05 PM	#1
Macthelist Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2005	Best way to "smarten" odd ellipsis pattern to U+2026? I have a book that has ellipses in pattern of repeating no-break space (U+00a0) and a regular period: i.e., as " . . . " Smarten Punctuation in Calibre doesn't catch it -- what's the best way to turn it into a U+2026 (horizontal ellipsis) using Calibre? Thanks for any suggestions!

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01-12-2023, 12:23 PM	#2
Quoth Still reading Posts: 13,847 Karma: 103895653 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Some people argue that periods and partial size no-break spaces are superior. But a global search for . . . replace with … in an ebook will work. You might also want to replace ... (or more .) and regular spaced version also partial sized spaces as well as the no-break space. I just type in “ ” ‘ ’ … — – ′ and ″ as only < and > need to be HTML entities in UTF8 ebooks. Similarly è é etc sometimes have HTML entities, but the direct characters work.

01-12-2023, 03:27 PM	#3
Macthelist Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2005	I found something that works for me. I was able to Regex search in the Calibre for: \u00A0[.]

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